The accidental hero.
An unemployed addict with 8 criminal convictions who was unjustly murdered, becomes the new icon for the Woke Era, posed here, sitting on a bench, outside of Newark City Hall.
What is this idealized George Floyd is thinking about on that bench? Justice? Police reform? His family? Counterfeiting? Where to score some fentanyl and methamphetamine?
Old heroes can still be found in the Wars of America statue in Newark's Military Park erected in 1926, from the same sculptor who gave us Mount Rushmore.
He was a human being whose murder galvanized the entire western world.
If he had been Ward Cleaver HE WOULDNT HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN SUCH FASHION.
Chauvin INTENTIONALLY murdered the guy on camera and just knew he would suffer no repercussion.
He didn’t have to be a saint to be a symbol of the danger black people feel every day from the people OUR TAX DOLLARS pay to protect and serve our communities.
Yes. Like I said, "unjustly murdered". An accidental hero.
Such is the world today.
Such is the world yesterday, today and probably tomorrow.
We can’t pick our heroes.
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/03/05/crispus-attucks-american-revolutionary-hero/
But that is exactly what's been done, now, and in centuries past.
And then, and now, when someone points out the feet of clay (or needlemarks) on these constructed myths, they are shunned, attacked, put down, etc.
You can't get into a froth and attack George Washington's character for having slaves while excusing MLK, Jr for plagiarism and infidelity.
And you can hold Chauvin's actions as reprehensible and hold him accountable without elevating Floyd to sainthood, too, if you want to be fair and balanced.
But that's not what has happened.
Same as it ever was.
You’ve no clue.
Fair and balanced?
Floyd represented a whole segment of society you despise including MLK.
You can really hold adultery balanced on the same scale of participating in chattel slavery?
Yeah. You can.
1) Saying that I "despise" a "whole segment of society" and "MLK", is an assertion for which you have provided no evidence. Absence such evidence, you have no business making that comment.
2) I did not hold adultery as being on the same scale as slavery, and a fair and balanced reading of my post would show that you have no business making that comment.
3) What I am pointing out is the character flaws of those who become idealized are greatly overlooked in the name of advancing a particular cause. The cause elevates the individual, and in some cases well beyond where that individual should have ever been considered for elevation.
4) If you confront your OWN biases, you might begin to see that this is a reasonable argument.
5) I doubt that will happen.